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Food

India’s Food Inflation at 8 Percent

India's Food Price Index rose 8 percent, which is its slowest pace in nearly 4 months, and the Fuel Price Index climbed 15.53 percent in the year (calculated till Nov. 19), government data released on Thursday showed.

Pfizer aims to keep one-third of Lipitor pie

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As cholesterol fighter Lipitor goes generic, its maker Pfizer Inc is hoping to hold onto perhaps a third of the 3 million Americans who take the biggest-selling drug of all time.
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U.S. defense industry braces for leaner times

U.S. weapons makers told investors this week they are doing all they can to prepare for leaner and more uncertain U.S. defense budgets, including redoubling their efforts to cut costs, drum up export sales and sell more goods to commercial clients.
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Gold

India Gold Futures Up, Silver Down

India gold futures rose by more than half a percent on Wednesday to hit their highest level in two weeks on firm global leads fanned by a weaker rupee at home.
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World Bank head sees ripple effects from euro woes

Europe's debt crisis threatens to undermine consumer confidence and cut off credit to businesses in the rapidly emerging markets that have been bright spots in an otherwise grim global economy, the head of the World Bank warned on Tuesday.
Rick Perry

Rick Perry Says Voting Age is 21, 10 Other Funny Gaffes (VIDEOS)

In a speech at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday, Rick Perry seemed to mix up the voting and drinking ages -- not to mention the date of the coming election. It was a slip of the tongue, not a substantive gaffe -- nobody really thinks Perry doesn't know the voting age -- but it was one of many YouTube-worthy moments of the Republican primary race.
Gold

Surging Gold Prices Curb Indian Demand

Simone Bora is contemplating the unthinkable -- an Indian wedding without lavish amounts of gold after record high prices and a sinking rupee have dimmed her hopes of sparkling at the party.
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George Harrison: All Things Must Pass

George Harrison was, to many observers, the most ‘intriguing’ and ‘interesting’ Beatle since he seemed to have no comfortable ‘place’ in the group.
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International air freight traffic slows: IATA

International air freight traffic was 4.8 percent lower in October than a year previously, while international passenger traffic grew 4.6 percent but at a slowing pace, the International Air Transport Association said on Monday.
Supermarket

Government Fails to Break Deadlock on Retail Reform

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh failed to break an impasse with opposition parties and his own political allies demanding a rollback of a reform allowing foreign supermarket giants to enter the country's $450 billion market.
Gold

High Gold Price Keeps Indian Buyers at Bay

Simone Bora is contemplating the unthinkable - an Indian wedding without lavish amounts of gold - after record high prices and a sinking rupee dimmed her hopes of sparkling at the party.
Petrol

Petrol Prices May be Cut by a Rupee - Source

The state refiners could cut petrol prices by an approximate price of Re. 1 per litre (or 1.5 percent), as softening Singapore spot gasoline prices have offset the impact of a declining rupee, an industry source said on Monday.

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